Diversified financial and real estate funds continue to be attractive investments For the private equity sector, 2011 was a roller coaster year, with the first half retaining the momentum from 2010 and the second half being affected by the global economic scenario.
Archives
Intel Capital eyes more Israeli tech firms, higher returns
Intel Capital said on Wednesday it was expanding its operations in Israel as it seeks to boost its portfolio of Israeli technology companies and improve returns on its investments.
Venture company NEA raises $2.59 billion fund
Venture company New Enterprise Associates announced it closed a $2.6 billion fund, the firm's 14th and one of the largest raised in venture capital.
China wealth fund suffers first-ever profit fall
China's sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp. suffered its first-ever drop in net profit in 2011 and predicted tough trading conditions may persist as volatile financial markets dent stock investments.
Private equity circles Ancestry.com -sources
Ancestry.com Inc (ACOM.O), the family-history research website, is exploring a sale to private equity firms and is hoping to solicit revised bids from them in early August.
Latest News
MicroVentures today announced the launch of MicroVentures Investor Challenge. MicroVentures today announced the launch of MicroVentures Investor Challenge — a Facebook game in which real startups like AirBnB, Etsy, and Pinterest compete for a player's virtual investment.
GE Antares served as administrative agent on a $405 million senior credit facility to support the acquisition of Tank Holdings Corp.
Sterling Partners has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet. SecureNet Payment Systems, a leader in payment processing technology, announced today that Sterling Partners, a leading growth-oriented private equity firm with approximately $5 billion in assets under management, has led an additional $18 million growth equity investment in SecureNet.
SensiQ Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by private equity firm TechVen Partners, and will seek to aggressively expand the market reach of its Label-Free Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) devices for biomolecular interaction analysis.
California-based NantWorks, LLC, announced today that leading investment firm Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has invested US$125 million in NantPharma.
Britain's local government pension schemes want more freedom to mobilise their billions of pounds of assets to spend on roads, power stations and other infrastructure.
After decades roaming the world in search of lower costs, U.S. manufacturers are finding that factories at home can compete with China, In dia, Mexico and other low-cost countries.
South Korea's Woongjin Holdings Co has opted to team up with a local private equity fund to buy a 31 percent stake in water purifier maker Woongjin Coway Co Ltd.
Asana, a Silicon Valley start-up, has lined up $28 million in a financing round led by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund.
